Sasha Fedorikhin
Associate Professor of Marketing | Indiana University, Kelley School of Business
Indianapolis, IN, UNITED STATES
Sasha Fedorikhin's research focuses on consumer behavior, consumer decision-making, and global marketing.
Biography
Alexander Fedorikhin is an associate professor of marketing at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business in Indianapolis. Professor Fedorikhin’s research projects examine the interplay of the emotional and the cognitive influences in consumer decision making. His research has been published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Marketing Science, Marketing Letters, and the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
“Marketers often underestimate emotions as a significant factor in consumer decisions. I believe and work to support the idea that emotions play a very important role in consumer purchases” says Fedorikhin, who has been recognized for his work by the Center for International Business Education and Research at both Indiana University and the University of Southern California, where he taught for five years before joining the Kelley School staff in 2005.
Alexander Fedorikhin received his Ph.D. from The University of Iowa with a major in marketing and a minor in international business. During his 20 years in university classrooms, Professor Fedorikhin has taught global marketing and consumer behavior to thousands of graduate and undergraduate students.
Industry Expertise (4)
Direct Marketing
Consumer Goods
Education/Learning
Market Research
Areas of Expertise (5)
Global Healthcare
Interplay of Emotional and Cognitive Factors in Consumer Decision Making
Marketing
International Business
Consumer Behavior
Accomplishments (3)
Trustees Teaching Award (professional)
2007-01-01
Indiana University
International Faculty Development Award (professional)
2000-01-01
Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBEAR), Marshall School of Business, and US Department of Education
Ponder Fellowship Award (professional)
1998-01-01
University of Iowa
Education (3)
University of Iowa: Ph.D. 1998
Idaho State University: MBA 1992
Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages: B.A. 1984
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Articles (5)
Effects of Dialecticism on Consumer Responses to Products With Conflicting Goals
ACR North American Advances
2016 This study investigated food label use by functionally low-literate consumers in a South African rural area. Respondents sometimes read labels and understood simple label information but struggled with more complex information and symbols. The provision of easily understandable labels for low-literate consumers to facilitate informed decisions will also benefit manufacturers.
The influence of positive affect on consideration set formation in memory-based choice
Marketing Letters
2015 Although prior research has examined whether positive affect can impact consideration set size in stimulus-based choice, unknown to this point is whether affective influences also characterize memory-based consideration processes. This distinction is important insofar as consideration in memory-based choice entails psychological processes (including those involving the accessibility of brands) that are unique to choice undertaken in memory-based settings.
But How Did You Expect to Feel?: the Motivated Misremembering of Affective Forecasts
ACR North American Advances
2012 Following an event, people often reflect on how it compared to their expectations. For example, after a political election, people might consider whether they had correctly predicted the winner, the winning margin, or even their own feelings about the result. Extant research has shown that when actual forecasts and experiences are discrepant, people attempt to resolve this dissonance by recalling their forecast as being closer to the experience than it actually was.
Positive mood and resistance to temptation: The interfering influence of elevated arousal
Journal of Consumer Research
2010 We investigate the interfering influence of elevated arousal on the impact of positive mood on resistance to temptation. Three studies demonstrate that when a temptation activates long-term health goals, baseline positive mood facilitates resistance to temptation in (1) the choice between two snack items, one of which is more unhealthy, sinful, and hard to resist (M&Ms) than the other (grapes) and (2) the monitoring of consumption when the sinful option is chosen. However, this influence is attenuated when positive mood is accompanied by elevated arousal. We demonstrate that the cognitive depletion that accompanies elevated arousal interferes with the self-regulatory focus of positive mood, decreasing resistance to temptation.
Coupling and decoupling of unfairness and anger in ultimatum bargaining
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
2008 Although previous research has demonstrated the importance of emotions in ultimatum bargaining, this research provides a more direct, convergent test of the role of anger in explaining rejections of unfair offers in ultimatum bargaining. First, using appraisal theory of emotions, this research examines the extent to which the cognitive appraisal of unfairness leads to the emotion of anger, which in turn, drives punitive behavior (i.e., rejection of offers). Second, this research explores the possibility of decoupling the emotion of anger from its antecedent appraisal of unfairness in order to attenuate responders' inclination to reject unfair offers. Third, following the current research tradition that goes beyond a valence-based approach, we differentiate between the negative emotions of anger and sadness and examine whether it is the specific emotion of anger that is relevant to the cognitive appraisal of unfairness or the general negative valence of the emotion.